Download or read book The Fool s Tale written by Nicole Galland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wales, 1198. A time of treachery, passion, and uncertainty. King Maelgwyn ap Cadwallon, known as Noble, struggles to protect his small kingdom from foes outside and inside his borders. Pressured into a marriage of political convenience, he takes as his bride the young, headstrong Isabel Mortimer, niece of his powerful English nemesis. Through strength of character, Isabel wins her husband's grudging respect, but finds the Welsh court backward and barbaric, and is soon engaged in a battle of wills against Gwirion, the king's oldest, oddest, and most trusted friend. Before long, however, Gwirion and Isabel's mutual animosity is abruptly transformed, and the king finds himself as threatened by loved ones as by the enemies who menace his crown. A masterful novel by a gifted storyteller, The Fool's Tale combines vivid historical fiction, compelling political intrigue, and passionate romance to create an intimate drama of three individuals bound -- and undone -- by love and loyalty.
Download or read book Fortune s Fool written by Mercedes Lackey and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess-she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom…and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Ekaterina suspects he's far from the fool people think him. But before she can find out what lies beneath his facade, she is kidnapped! Trapped in a castle at the mercy of a possessive Jinn, Ekaterina knows her chances of being found are slim. Now fortune, a fool and a paper bird are the only things she can count on-along with her own clever mind and intrepid heart.…
Download or read book Fools written by Joan Silber and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fool and Other Moral Tales written by Anne Serre and published by Les Fugitives. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To make a pact with the thing that threatens you is arguably the smartest trick of all.' From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre come three bewitching, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales, in which kernels of trauma, loss, loneliness and obsession are glimpsed through the glittering gauze of fiction. 'The Fool' may have stepped out of a tarot pack - to walk a mountain trail or worm his way into a writer's mind. 'The Narrator' proposes his mirror image, a storyteller in sheep's clothing, who has a bone to pick with language. The power of narrative to trump a stark reality is perhaps at its strongest in the last story; in 'The Wishing Table' the orgiastic antics of an incestuous family are recounted by one of three daughters. A dream logic rules each of these unpredictable, sensual, and surreal stories: romps no doubt, yet deeply moral, and entirely unforgettable ones.
Download or read book The Governesses written by Anne Serre and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational US debut of a major French writer—an intense, delicious meringue of a novella In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children’s education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book’s “deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader.” Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.
Download or read book Time s Fool written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Lea perpetually rides a ghost train -- except every seven years on Christmas Eve, when he is allowed to revisit his home town. Like Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Edmund is condemned to eternity alone until he determines how to lift the curse upon him. Time passes, from 1970 to 2019, but Edmund remains seventeen, unable to age and watching the world grow older. He tries in vain to break the spell by way of true love, repentance, hedonism; he tries to change the world and he tries to die. Characters move in and out of Maxwell's story like Dante's figures in Hell, but Edmund's own Virgil is a careless and unhelpful poet, a portrait of the author as a student. The tale is told in formal terza rima, but its language and tone, its humor and sense of homesickness, are decidedly contemporary. It is a brilliant achievement.
Download or read book The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1987-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Fools written by Chad "Sir Wick" Hughes and published by Sir Wick Music. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliezer “Eli” Brooks is a music major whose main objective is perfection. He works tirelessly in a practice room to become the best trumpeter in the world but his dedication to his music makes him a social hermit. Despite his focus, he unexpectedly falls in love with Alexandra Hylton: a young MBA student who is being courted to work for a major-marketing firm post-graduation. Although she loves Eli, Alexandra realizes that her life may be better by returning to her ex-boyfriend Harrison, a six-figure executive who can give her everything she desires. Will Eli find true love with Alexandra or will she return to her former love?
Download or read book Pedro Fools the Gringo and Other Tales of a Latin American Trickster written by María Cristina Brusca and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book-with its mischievous hero, its attractive, open layout, & its brief stories-is accessible to young readers." -The Horn Book
Download or read book Fool written by Christopher Moore and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” —Dallas Morning News Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”
Download or read book A Fool s Journey written by Sarika Bhardwaj and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a world of material wealth but emotional emptiness, Siddh embarks on a daring odyssey of self-discovery, yearning to break free from the suffocating confines of his father's empire. With his grieving mother unable to stop him, he ventures far from home where he stumbles upon a compassionate stranger named Vinayak, whose hotel becomes a sanctuary for Siddh’s troubled soul. Haunted by grief and melancholy, Siddh reluctantly accepts Vinayak’s offer to be his guide on his ‘fool’s journey’. As Siddh learns to fight his inner demons, Vinayak introduces him to the profound wisdom of ‘self-presence’, a unique philosophy that promises inner peace, mindfulness, and contentment. Through the power of meditation and self-expression, Siddh undergoes a remarkable transformation, finding solace in the support of kind souls he encounters along the way. Yet, even as Siddh’s pursuit of meaning becomes easier, his dream of mending the fractured bonds of his family remains distant. Will he find a way to reconcile with his estranged father and reunite his family? Will he be able to look past the veil of his father’s indifference? Or will he discover the truth too late? Will Vinayak prove to be the mentor Siddh desperately needed in his life? A Fool's Journey is a captivating tale of personal struggle and evolution that explores the depths of human emotions and the pursuit of true happiness, reminding us that age is no barrier when it comes to seeking one’s sense of self. Join Siddh on this inspiring adventure as he unravels the intricacies of self-discovery and finds that true fulfilment often comes from the most unexpected sources.
Download or read book A Tale of a Fool written by Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of a Fool? explores the life of Guðrún Ketilsdóttir, a peasant woman born in Iceland around 1759, and addresses the question of the methods, priorities and interpretations applied in collecting, cataloguing and the publication of women's writing.
Download or read book A Tale of a Fool written by Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of a Fool? explores the life of Guðrún Ketilsdóttir, a peasant woman born in Iceland around 1759. Guðrún worked as a farmhand for most of her adult life, and when she died she left behind a partial autobiography, which is believed to be the oldest autobiography of an Icelandic peasant woman. In this autobiography, Guðrún writes openly about her life and provides colourful depictions of the society in which she lived, providing one of the few first-hand accounts that have survived from members of the peasant class at that time. A Tale of a Fool? demonstrates how it is possible to work with this kind of source using the methods of microhistory as a historical tool to study events and individuals of the past. In doing so, it not only provides an illuminating study of the life of a peasant woman in the 18th and 19th centuries but also addresses the question of the methods, priorities and interpretations applied in the collecting, cataloguing and publication of women’s writing. Analysing the place of the individual in traditional agrarian societies and highlighting the impact that women have had on the cultural and social history of the period, A Tale of a Fool? is ideal for researchers of microhistory and early modern Iceland/Scandinavia.
Download or read book Emelian the Fool a tale written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emelian the Fool: a tale" by Various and edited by Thomas James Wise The tale of Emelian has taken many forms as a highly popular tale amongst the peasantry of Russia. It bears some resemblance to the tale of Aladdin, and it's very likely that both stories originally derived from the same common myth. However, it evolved to become not just a popular story, but a genuine semblance of common life in Russia. This tale alone has helped countless English speakers around the world learn what life was like in the grand and mysterious country.
Download or read book Russian Tales of Clever Fools Complete Russian Folktale v 7 written by Jack V. Haney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the concluding installment of a splendid multi-volume work that makes available to English readers a rich folktale tradition that has not been easily accessible or well-known in the West. Compared to other European traditions, the East Slavs have an extremely large number of tale types. Using the Aarne-Thompson index to folktale types, and drawing on both archival and written sources dating back to the early sixteenth century, J.V. Haney has assembled and translated examples of the full range of tales. Nearly all of these tales appear here in translation for the first time. The tales in this volume center on the so-called fool, the village simpleton. However, Ivan, the Russian everyman, turns out to have far more sense than his would-be oppressors. The greedy priests and landlords and dim-witted demons who try to take advantage of him are easily outsmarted. In the end it is they who are shown to be the fools as Ivan outwits or outlasts them. In these unequal contests lies the pleasure of the tales.
Download or read book Gimpel the Fool written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve short stories about Jewish life in Poland.
Download or read book The Six Fools written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man searches for three people more foolish than his fiancée and her parents.
